1:22 PM ET Gab Marcotti Mark Ogden It’s been a seismic week for soccer. From the hasty unveiling of the Super League on Sunday — with 12 top clubs around Europe announcing their intent to form a breakaway competition in which they’d compete, consequence-free, outside the UEFA Champions League — to its rapid collapse on
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1:44 PM ET Several hundred Arsenal fans protested outside Emirates Stadium before the team’s English Premier League match against Everton on Friday to call for owner Stan Kroenke to leave the club over its bid to join the Super League. – Marcotti: How Super League fell apart– Hamilton: How fan revolt helped end Super League
12:04 PM ET Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has been charged for assault. Mark Hawkins / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Wales manger Ryan Giggs was charged on Friday with assaulting two women for incidents from 2017 to 2020, Greater Manchester Police said. The former Manchester United midfielder was accused of causing “actual
8:22 AM ET The proposed European Super League may have flamed out within 48 hours of it being announced this week, but for a brief time we were being promised a new league chock full of footballing superpowers: AC Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Internazionale, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and
9:31 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ed Woodward never recovered from the summer of 2013. Thrown in at the deep end when legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and CEO David Gill left Manchester United within months of each other, he wanted to make a splash. Instead, it was a flop. The transfer window, his first as
5:40 AM ET Ligue 1 club Bordeaux have been placed in administration after their American-based owners King Street said they no longer wished to support the club financially. The former French champions have been struggling financially due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the premature end to the 2019-20 season also resulted in
7:15 AM ET England‘s 2020 European Championship prospects have been boosted by UEFA’s decision to hand Wembley Stadium a second round-of-16 tie at the tournament following the decision to strip Dublin and Bilbao of hosting rights due to their failure guarantee that supporters will be allowed to attend games this summer. Wembley had been scheduled
3:36 AM ET Online racist abuse directed at football players has reached a “crisis point” and social media platforms must join forces with authorities to tackle the problem more quickly, according to Britain’s sports minister Nigel Huddleston. A host of players at Premier League clubs have been targeted in the past few months, including Manchester
8:23 AM ET It’s been quite a week if, like millions of football fans, you had to process the shock news that your favourite football club was in the process of breaking away to form a lucrative new European Super League. For supporters of the 12 would-be “founder” clubs, this was doubtless a source of
11:24 AM ET Playing in an empty stadium in Orlando three days before Christmas, Diego Rossi got on the end of a lofted, close-range pass from Mark-Anthony Kaye and softly chipped the keeper to send LAFC into rarified air. In the two decades since the FIFA Club World Cup was founded, no team from Major
4:15 PM ET Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan says the new format for the UEFA Champions League is flawed and will add to player fatigue, calling it the lesser of two evils in comparison to the controversial European Super League. UEFA announced this week that they would expand the Champions League to 36 clubs from
4:48 PM ET The fan attacks on Schalke 044 continue to shake the German club after the Bundesliga side were relegated on Tuesday, with the team not having trained in two days and club officials unsure if all players will want to continue wearing the Royal Blues jersey this season. “The fear in Buyo’s eyes
1:22 PM ET The roar from outside Stamford Bridge reverberated around a corner of southwest London, but it was felt throughout the footballing world. Chelsea‘s team bus was marooned outside their home ground, just a couple of hours before kickoff against Brighton & Hove Albion on Tuesday night. It led to Chelsea legend and the
3:20 PM ET Zlatan Ibrahimovic has agreed to sign a contract extension with AC Milan which will see him play beyond his 40th birthday, the club has announced. The striker extended his deal at the end of last season and has decided to continue his spell with the Serie A club until the end of
2:33 PM ET Kroenke Sports Enterprises have no intention of selling Arsenal and will cover the cost of the club’s aborted attempt to join a European Super League, director Josh Kroenke insisted during a stormy meeting with supporters on Thursday. The Gunners regularly hold Fans’ Forum events with influential groups throughout the season but Kroenke,
1:08 PM ET UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned rebel clubs and executive owners that they will face “consequences” for their aborted breakaway, including Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli who is claimed to have lied. “I have never seen a person who would lie so many times and so persistently as he did,” Ceferin said, leaving
10:09 AM ET Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said the European Super League (ESL) is “a necessity” but that the club’s members will have the last word on the proposal. Barca were one of the 12 founding members of the project and have not yet withdrawn their support for it. However, eight of the clubs
5:58 AM ET Jesse Lingard has said that he considered taking a break from football last year due to issues concerning the mental health of his family and himself. The forward also discussed how coping with his mother’s depression impacted his life on and off the pitch. The interview was conducted in January but was
9:00 AM ET Soccer’s long-simmering tension between tradition and hyper-capitalism came to a head with the announcement that 12 huge clubs would be breaking from UEFA to form a Super League. That the whole thing fell apart within 48 hours was certainly entertaining, but it didn’t really help us to understand what structural changes, if
6:13 AM ET Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said owner Stan Kroenke apologised to him directly over the European Super League fiasco and believes the backlash proves “the soul of this sport belongs to the fans.” The north London side were one of six English clubs signed up to a breakaway competition which appears on
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